Printing-ink and process of producing same



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY A. BARMIEB, OI CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PRINTING-INK AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING SAME.

Patented July 5, 1921.

No Drawing. Application filed November 22, 1919. ,Serlal No. 340,059.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY A. BARMIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago; in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Printin -Ink and Processes of Producing Same, 0 which the following is a specification.

This invention has to do with the manufacture of a nick drying printing ink, superior in qua ity and having a wide range of use, from ingredients somewhat similar to those that have been used in the production of inks having a more or less limited field of usefulness.

It has been proposed to combine asphalt and mineral 011s, also various products of petroleum distillation with certain binding media, as substitutes for printing ink varnishes made from linseed or other expensive ve etable oils. I

ecause of the nature of the substitutes selected, it has beenstated to be desirable, if not necessary, to combine them by special treatments, the result being that whether due to the process of treatment, the character of the ingredients, or both, no ink of this general type has heretofore been produced which is satisfactory for use in high grade printin on every stock of paper. w I propose the manufacture of a printing ink varnish from gilsonite, fuel 'oil an paraffin oil. Gilsonite, or uintahite, is a brilliant black, very brittle variety of asphalt having a carbon content of from 10 to 20 er cent. It is mined in Uinta county', Utah. Fuel oil" is a commercial term used to denote distillates heavier than illuminating oils and li hter than lubricatin oils. Paraflin oil is a lubricant genera y produced by the dry distillation method.

A detailed description of a preferredmethod of procedure based upon the emloyment of these in redients is as follows: 0 70 pounds of gi sonite which has been heated to a temperature of between 350 and 400 F thereby becoming fused, 120 ounds of fuel oil are added, the mixture eing thoroughly stirred and the high temperature maintained for a periodof approximately 30 minutes. The mixture is then allowed to cool down to about 150 F., when i 12 pounds of paraffin oil is incorporated therein. The resultant product is a viscid black varnish having a light brown undertone, which when ground in with a pigment provides an ink that will give a clear, sharp impression on any grade of stock, will dry on glazed surface paper within five minutes and on rough finished paper in a few seconds. On the other hand it will not dry on the printing press for several hours.

Variations in the proportions of ingredients, the temperatures and periods of treatment are permissible in practice without departure from the essence of the invention.

I claim 1. A printing ink comprising gilsonite, fuel oil, paraflin oil and a pigment.

2. A printingink comprising ilsonite, fuel oil and coloring matter com ined in fluid consistency.

3. A printin ink varnish comprising gilsonite and fue oil mixed'at a temperature of 350" or over, and paraflin oil.

4. A printing ink varnish comprising gilsonite, fuel oil and araflin oil mixed together under the in uenceof heat in the proportion of 70 oundsof gilsonite to 120 ounrlis of fuel 011 to 12 pounds of parafn 01 -5. The process of making a printing ink which consists in mixing gilsonite, fuel oil and parafiin oil in the presence ofhcat and addin a pigment.

6. he process of makin a printing ink which comprises mixing ilson te and fuel oil at a tem erature su cient to fuse the ilsonite, coo ing the mixture, adding parafn oil and then a pigment.

7. The process of making a printin'g ink varnish which comprises mixing ilsonite and fuel oil at a temperature su cient to tfiunse tlhe gilsonite, cooling and adding paraf 8. The process of making a printin ink which com rises heating a quantiti o gilsonite to fiise the same mixin t erewith approximately twice as much 01 oil, adding a quantity of paraifin'oll equal to approximately one-tenth pf the fuel 01] content and incorporating a. pigment.

I 9. The process of making a printin ink In witness whereof I have hereunto signed which consists in mixing gllsonite an fuel my name in the presence of two subscribing 10 oii at a tenaperature suflieient to fusi the wltnesses.

isonite, re ucin the tem erature o t e 5 filixture, incorporating thel ein a quantity HARRY BARMIER' of parafiin oil approximately equal to one Witnesses: tenth of the content of fuel oil and adding FRANKLIN WARDEN, 'a, pigment. FRANCES K. GILLESPIE.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,383,512. greeted July 5, 1921, upon the application of Harry A; Bonnier,- of Chicago; Illinois, for an imflrovement in "Printing-Ink and Proceeges of Producing the Seine, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, after line 90, insert the following as cleim 7: l

7'. The process of making a priming in]: varnish which comprises mixing gilaom'te and fuel oil at a temperature of 850 or over, ollowing the mixture to cool, and adding paw -fin 0111.;

same page, line 91, for claim number 7. read 8.; line 96, for claim number "8." read 9.; and page-2, line 1, for claim number "9. read 10.; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the some may conform to the-record of the case in the Patent Olfice.

Signed and sealed this 23d day of August, A. D., 1921.

[SEAL] KARL FENNIN G,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. Cl. 134-36. 

